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hundredths of one inch in diameter; colored or crayon leads, not specially provided for.

1550 (b) Fountain pens, fountain-pen holders, stylographic pens, and parts thereof.

1551 Photographic cameras and parts thereof, not specially provided for (except motion-picture cameras and cameras with fixed focus, and parts thereof); photographic-film negatives, imported in any form, for use in any way in connection with moving-picture exhibits, or for making or reproducing pictures for such exhibits, except undeveloped negative moving-picture film of American manufacture exposed abroad for silent or sound news reel; photographic-film positives, imported in any form, for use in any way in connection with moving-picture exhibits, including herein all moving, motion, motophotography, or cinematography film pictures, prints, positives, or duplicates of every kind and nature, and of whatever substance made; photographic and motion-picture films or film negatives taken from the United States and exposed in a foreign country by an American producer of motion pictures operating temporarily in said foreign country in the course of production of a picture 60 per centum or more of which is made in the United States.

1552 Pipes and smokers' articles: Common tobacco pipes and pipe bowls made wholly of clay, valued at more than 40 cents per gross; tobacco pipe bowls, wholly or in chief value of brier or other wood or 100t, in whatever condition of manufacture, whether bored or unbored, and tobacco pipes having such bowls; pipes (except pipes having clay bowls (not including meerschaum) and mouthpieces of material other than clay), pipe bowls, cigar and cigarette holders, not specially provided for, and mouthpieces for pipes, or for cigar and cigarette holders, all the foregoing of whatever material composed, and in whatever condition of manufacture, whether wholly or partly finished, or whether bored or unbored; pouches for chewing or smoking tobacco, cases suitable for pipes, cigar and cigarette holders, finished or partly finished, cigarette books, cigarette-book covers, cigarette paper in all forms, except cork paper; cigar and cigarette boxes, wholly or in chief value of silver and valued at 40 cents or more per ounce, finished or unfinished, not specially provided for; and cigar and cigarette cases and parts thereof, wholly or in chief value of leather, finished or unfinished, not specially provided for; meerschaum, crude or unmanufactured.

1554 Walking canes, finished or unfinished, valued at $5 or more per dozen; handles and sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, walking canes, wholly or in chief value of synthetic resin.

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1557 Stamping and embossing materials of pigments, mounted on paper or equivalent backing and releasable from the backing by means of heat and pressure. 1558 All raw or unmanufactured articles not enumerated or provided for: Evergreen Christmas trees.

1601

All articles manufactured in whole or in part, not specially provided for: Fatty acids derived from vegetable, animal, or fish oils, or from animal fats and greases; marine-glue pitch; coconut-shell char; lecithin, not medicinal, and materials made therefrom; ficin powder; and yeast.

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Acids and acid anhydrides: Hydrochloric or muriatic acid, nitric acid, and valerianic acid, and all anhydrides of the foregoing not specially provided for. 1602 Licorice root, natural and uncompounded and in a crude state, not advanced in value or condition by shredding, grinding, chipping, crushing, or any other process or treatment whatever beyond that essential to proper packing and the prevention of decay or deterioration pending manufacture, and not containing alcohol.

1605 Albumen, not specially provided for.

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1610 Antitoxins, vaccines, viruses, serums, and bacterins, used for therapeutic

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1618 1623

Bananas, green or ripe.

Bread (except hard crisp bread made from rye flour and not more than 5 per centum of wheat flour, if any).

1633 Borax, crude or unmanufactured, and borate of lime, borate of soda, and other borate material, crude and unmanufactured, not specially provided for.

1634 Brass, old brass, clippings from brass or Dutch metal, all the foregoing, fit only for remanufacture.

1643 Shoe machinery, whether in whole or in part, including repair parts. 1647

Chromite or chrome ore.

1657 Composition metal of which copper is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for.

1659 Copper sulphate or blue vitriol; uopper acetate and subacetate or verdigris.

1664 Metallic mineral substances in a crude state, such as drosses, skimmings, residue (except drosses, skimmings, and residues of tin), brass foundry ash, and flue dust (except cadmium flue dust), not specially provided for. 1667 Cyanide: Potassium cyanide, all cyanide salts and cyanide mixtures (not including sodium cyanide, sulphocyanides or thiocyanides, thiocyanates, nitroprussides, ferrocyanides, ferricyanides, and cyanates). 1669 Ginseng, natural and uncompounded and not edible, and not specially provided for, in a crude state, not advanced in value or condition by shredding, grinding, chipping, crushing, or any other process or treatment whatever beyond that essential to the proper packing of the drugs and the prevention of decay or deterioration pending manufacture, and not containing alcohol. 1670 Dyeing or tanning materials: Valonnia and tara, whether crude or advanced in value or condition by shredding, grinding, chipping, crushing, or any similar process, not containing alcohol and not specially provided for.

1671 1672 1673

Eggs of birds, fish, and insects (except fish roe for food purposes).
Emery ore, not specially provided for.

Enfleurage greases, not mixed or compounded with or containing alcohol. 1677 Fish imported to be used for purposes other than human consumption: Aquarium fish (except goldfish).

1681 Furs and fur skins, not specially provided for, undressed: Badger. 1684 Grasses and fibers: Manila, not dressed or manufacture in any manner, and not specially provided for.

1685 Limestone, crude, crushed, or broken, when imported to be used in the manufacture of fertilizer.

1686 Gums and resins: Sandarac, not specially provided for.

1688 Hair of animals other than horse or cattle, cleaned or uncleaned, drawn or undrawn, but unmanufactured, not specially provided for: Dressed soft hair.

1695 Horses or mules imported for immediate slaughter.

1700 The dross or residuum from burnt pyrites.

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1719 Minerals, crude, or not advanced in value or condition by refining or grind

ing, or by other process of manufacture, not specially provided for (except lignite, Cornwall stone, gravel, actinolite, natural gas, nepheline syenite, kyanite, sillimanite, and metallic ores or concentrates other than vanadium ore or concentrates).

1720 Models of inventions and of improvements in the arts, to be used exclusively as models and incapable of any other use. 1722 Seaweeds, and vegetable substances, crude or unmanufactured, not specially provided for (not including moss and except marjoram leaves, derris root, tuba or tube root, bay leaves, sloe and juniper berries, origanum or origan, lavender flowers, patchouli leaves, lycopodium, and orris root.) 1727 Oil-bearing seeds and nuts: Hempseed and kapok seed; seeds and nuts, not specially provided for, when the oils derived therefrom are free of duty (except babassu nuts and kernels, ouricuri nuts and kernels, muru muru nuts and kernels, and tucum kernels).

1728 Nux vomica and gentian.

1731 Oils, distilled or essential: Citronella and lemon-grass, not mixed or compounded with or containing alcohol.

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1732 Oils, expressed or extracted: Rapeseed, rendered unfit for use as food or for any but mechanical or manufacturing purposes.

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1757

1761

1762

1763

1765

Ores of the platinum metals.

Potassium nitrate or saltpeter, crude.

Sugar beet seed.

Shellfish, fresh or frozen (whether or not packed in ice), or prepared or preserved in any manner, and not specially provided for (not including shrimps, lobsters, and pastes and sauces, and except crabs, clams, quahaugs, oysters, prawns, abalone, and scallops).

Silk waste.

Silk, raw, in skeins reeled from the cocoon, or rereeled, but not wound, doubled, twisted, or advanced in manufacture in any way: Wild or tussah silk.

Skins of all kinds, raw, and hides not specially provided for: Carpincho. 1768 Spices and spice seeds: (2) Cardammon and coriander.

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1796 Wax: Animal (except beeswax) or mineral (except ceresin), not specially provided for.

1811 Works of art: Rugs and carpets made prior to the year 1701.

1812

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2491

Gobelin tapestries used as wall hangings.

ARTICLES PROVIDED FOR IN THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE

Palm-kernel oil.

(a) Fish oil (except whale oil, shark oil and shark-liver oil, including oil produced from sharks known as dogfish, sod oil, herring oil, menhaden oil, eulachon oil, and fish-liver oils classifiable under paragraph 34 or 1669, Tariff Act of 1930); marine-animal oil; tallow, inedible animal oils, inedible animal fats, and inedible animal greases; and fatty acids derived from and salts of any article provided for in section 2491 (a), Internal Revenue Code.

(b) Rapeseed oil and perilla oil, and fatty acids of any of the oils specified in section 2491 (b), Internal Revenue Code or of linseed oil, and salts of any of the foregoing.

(c) Any article, merchandise, or combination (except oils specified in section 2470, Internal Revenue Code), 10 per centum or more of the quantity by weight of which consists of or is derived directly or indirectly from, one or more of the products specified in section 2491 (a) and (b) or in section 2470, Internal Revenue Code (except oleo oil and oleo stearin).

(d) Kapok seed.

3424 Cedar commercially known as Spanish cedar, lignum-vitae, lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, and satinwood: Flooring.

COMMITTEE FOR RECIPROCITY INFORMATION

Trade-Agreement Negotiations With Each of the Following Countries

I. Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Luxemburg, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom, which are contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; and

II. Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, Guatemala, Korea, Peru, and Turkey, which are applicants for accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; and

III. Possible Adjustment in Preferential Rates on Cuban Products. Submission of Information to the Committee for Reciprocity Information. Closing date for application to be heard, May 10, 1950.

Closing date for submission of briefs, May 17, 1950.

Public hearings open, May 24, 1950.

The Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements has issued on this day a notice of intention to conduct trade-agreement negotiations with the following countries including, in each case, areas in respect of which the country has authority to conduct trade-agreement negotiations: Australia, Austria, Bel

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guim, Brazil, Canada, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Guatemala, Korea, Luxemburg, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Turkey, the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Annexed to this public notice is a list of articles imported into the United States to be considered for possible concessions in the negotiations.

The notice of intention to negotiate states that it is proposed to enter into negotiations with these countries for the purpose of negotiating mutually advantageous tariff concessions. Negotiations with Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, Guatemala, Korea, Peru, and Turkey will also be for the purpose of their accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

The Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements has also announced in such notice that, in the case of each article in the list with respect to which the corresponding product of Cuba is subject to preferential treatment, the negotiations referred to will involve the elimination, reduction, or continuation of the preference, perhaps with an adjustment or specification of the rate applicable to the product of Cuba. It has also been announced by the Interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agreements that consideration might be given proposals to change the date in Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

The Committee for Reciprocity Information hereby gives notice that all applications for oral presentation of views in regard to the foregoing proposals, which must indicate the product or products on which the individuals or groups desire to be heard, shall be submitted to the Committee for Reciprocity Information not later than 12:00 noon, May 10, 1950, and all information and views in writing in regard to the foregoing proposals shall be submitted to the Committee for Reciprocity Information not later than 12:00 noon. May 17, 1950. Such communications shall be addressed to "The Chairman, Committee for Reciprocity Information, Tariff Commission Building, Washington 25, D. C." Ten copies of written statements, either typed, printed, or duplicated, shall be submitted, of which one copy shall be sworn to.

Public hearings will be held before the Committee for Reciprocity Information, at which oral statements will be heard. The first hearing will be at 10:00 a. m. on May 24, 1950, in the Hearing Room in the Tariff Commission Building, 7th and E Streets NW., Washington 25, D. C. Witnesses who make application to be heard will be advised regarding the time and place of their individual appearances. Appearances at hearings before the Committee may be made only by or on behalf of those persons who have filed written statements and who have, within the time prescribed, made written application for oral presentation of views. Statements made at the public hearings shall be under oath.

Persons or groups interested in import products may present to the Committee their views concerning possible tariff concessions by the United States on any product, whether or not included in the list annexed to the notice of intention to negotiate. However, as indicated in the notice of intention to negotiate, no tariff reduction will be considered on any product which is not included in the list annexed thereto or in a supplementary public list.

Persons interested in export items may present their views regarding any tariff (including preferential tariff) or other concessions that might be requested of the foreign governments with which negotiations are to be conducted. Views concerning general provisions of a nature customarily included in trade agreements may also be presented.

Copies of the list attached to the notice of intention to negotiate may be obtained from the Committee for Reciprocity Information at the address designated above and may be inspected at the field offices of the Department of Commerce. The United States Tariff Commission has this date issued a notice stating the location and availability of tariff and commodity information pertinent to the pending negotiations announced herein.

By direction of the Committee for Reciprocity Information this 11th day of April 1950.

Secretary, Committee for Reciprocity Information.

The Honorable JOHN KEE,

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, INC.,
New York, N. Y., April 26, 1950.

Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs,

House Office Building, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SIR: As president of Oxford University Press, Inc., a New York corporation wholly owned by the University of Oxford, I enclose 35 copies of a letter presenting the views of my company in regard to the provisions of the Habana Charter.

I am an American-born citizen of the United States of America, and the letter represents also my personal views.

I respectfully request that you make copies of the enclosed letter available to all members of your committee.

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DEAR MR. RADCLIFFE: I am writing to you because of your interest in international trade relations and because I feel that we have now an opportunity that may not come again for a good many years to benefit our industry and especially those of us who are concerned with the international trade in books. I refer, of course, to the ratification of the reciprocal agreements of the Habana Charter-particularly to article 20, which prohibits hidden tariffs and which potentially will repeal the more stringent restrictions of the manufacturing clause of the Copyright Act.

At the present time books are one of the things discriminated against by "double" protection-"double jeopardy," a lawyer might call it. A book in the English language published outside the United States not only is subject to the duties and usual red tape of entry for any imports but except for a small number of copies and during a limited period, is denied protection under the copyright law. On the other hand, an American book can gain international copyright only by being published simultaneously in one of the Berne Convention countries and conforming to the specific laws of that country. In consequence many of our books are not legally protected against foreign pirating.

There are some groups both within and without the publishing industry that are opposed to the idea of repealing the manufacturing clause or modifying it in any way. Their arguments seem to fall into two classes: (1) If there were no manufacturing restrictions, American publishers would send their work outside the country for manufacture by cheaper labor; (2) that foreign publishers would flood the country with their products, so that American labor and American publishers would not have the profit of manufacturing here.

In regard to the first objection, for the most part and with ordinary books, our mass-production methods make it possible to produce more cheaply here than abroad. Except in the case of small printings, there is very little competition for the type of manufacturing our people want. American-produced books even in their most inexpensive editions are well made, well printed, and well designed. American printers and binders are skilled and efficient. Furthermore, American publishers are used to working in close cooperation with book manufacturers and, when possible, choose those with whom they can consult at short notice. The publishers' inevitable “rush" seasons would make the time involved in foreign production an insuperable deterrent.

It is true that in the case of some art books a part of the work can be done more cheaply and more accurately abroad. A case in point is In Our Image, an illustrated edition of stories from the Bible. The engraving was done in England; but even though it was a book of large sales potentialties and the printings were extensive, it was found more economical to set the type, make the plates for the text of the book, and, in fact, do everything but the original engraving work in the United States. It is noteworthy that only by having the art work done abroad was it practical to have the book produced at all; thus American typesetters, printers, binders, and so on, gained by the procedure.

The contention that if the present manufacturing clause were eliminated, British publishers would refuse to sell American rights on their popular books

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